Posted by Morpork at August 23rd, 2008

Today, by which I mean yesterday, I invited (read: coaxed) two of my friends to watch a movie. In case you haven’t guessed, I am being sucked into a vortex of geekdom (and add that on top of posting in a site called… Azngeek) and planned to watch Star Wars. In the last minute, I changed my mind and got tickets for Wanted because I sensed that animated people tagging each other with bright glowing sticks will not appeal to non-geeks. Displease my friends I must not…
Now that’s where the post-worthy material comes in.

Problem: There are three of us and I have a pocketful of vouchers that read: “Two tickets for $20″.

Solution: Simple. See that guy over there all alone, getting a ticket? Ask him to team up with you so you can get cheap tickets. Hahaha, yeah. Behind me, there is a group of 3. Great. I’ve got more than enough vouchers! Really. I then proceed to offer them one of the vouchers anyway for talking to me deigning to talk to me. I like to please karma. Hah!

Result: I ended up paying extra money for the third ticket. (Actually, one of my friends did. I’ll make it up to him one day.) And guess what? I got even more of those vouchers. I gave away all my old ones to a couple. So the key is to not team up and people will gladly take them. If you so much as offer an alliance, they will be completely defensive and reject any further offers from you.